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they all work with some help but it is the chip on the card not the company that sales it you can have. I have got both of them to work. but then not sure what cip all the chips i know work right now with then ndiswrapper program and then you use a windows driver. i have mine set up both ways i am a hard ware geek but to ask a question you could google sure would help me out. good luck

Im having problems installing the wusb600n driver, i have downloaded them from the linksys web site. The files im using are the ones used for XP:
Driver.2K* rt2870.cat* rt2870.inf* rt2870.sys*
Im using ndiswrapper to load the rt2870.inf and it tells me that ndiswrapper does not have an interface. Im using PClinuOS on kde, kernel version 2.6.18.8.

I have had success with the WUSB600N with the XP driver it comes with on disk and ndiswrapper but it is unstable when in WPK1 encryption mode and stops receiving after a short time of any slightly aggressive load.

I would like to point out that I tried the Ralink usb2870 driver and ndiswrapped crashed trying to install it??? any suggestions anyone,

A present for everyone having trouble with the Cisco/Linksys Wireless-N USB Network Adapter with Dual-Band Version 2 (aka WUSB600N v2)!

NOTE: The code for the Ralink driver is currently NOT 64-bit clean, so any success compiling and installing on a 64-bit kernel (amd64, x86_64, etc.) is pure fluke. If anyone has any luck getting the adapter to work in a 64-bit environment, please let me know! These instructions are proven only for 32-bit environments.

NOTE: These were the steps required to install the driver on a system running Debian GNU/Linux 2.6.26-2-686, installed from the 5.0.4 (lenny) i386 image available at: http://www.debian.org/CD/

They were revised to be clearer for users running different distributions, including Ubuntu and Fedora. Others may require minor tweaks, but should work as well.

NOTE: Fedora users are able to ignore the prerequisites, perform Steps 0 through 6, 11 and 12, skipping steps 7 through 10 completely.

WUSB600N v2 Quickstart Guide for Linux

Debian Prerequisites (mostly precautionary):
- Plug into a wired connection and do a full update with System > Administration > Update Manager.
- Load Synaptic Package Manager
- You will have have "linux-image-${VERSION}" installed
- ...where ${VERSION} is the output from the command `uname -r`. For example: linux-headers-2.6.26-2-686.
- Make sure you have "linux-headers-${VERSION}" installed
- Make sure you have "linux-source-${VERSION}" installed
- Install "build-essential" (and also possibly "kernel-package", "kbuild", "linux-kbuild-${VERSION}", "linux-support-${VERSION}", though I doubt if these were actually required)

Step 2.
Unpack the tarball {DATE}_RT3572_LinuxSTA_{VERSION}.tar.bz2 to a location where you can find it (home folder, Desktop, etc.) All paths listed below are in reference to the folder you just unpacked, for example ${BASE} actually refers to the folder: "/home/username/Desktop/2009_1214_RT3572_LinuxSTA_V2.3.0.0/" (or similar)

Step 3.
From the command line, run lsusb. You should get some output that looks like this:

Step 9 Troubleshooting:
You may have to also blacklist a selection of additional drivers that come with your kernel. For example, the default Ubuntu 2.6.32-21-generic installation may require the following:

If you're still not getting a connection, repeat Step 3 to ensure your adapter is present. If it does not show, unplug it and reinsert. lsusb should now show your adapter and you should be able to connect.

If you're STILL not getting a connection, Consider installing "Wicd", an alternative network manager. You will need to manually input "ra0" as your "Wireless interface in the Preferences pane.

I thought this was complete, but you're right...I forgot a couple of things! Firstly, you must have the complete suite of packages installed that will allow you to compile software. Be sure you have compilers installed: "gcc", "gcc-base", etc. installed. (Version 3.4 for compatibility, version 4.3 for newness). Some distros, I believe, have a special option for "Development System", which if left unchecked will probably exclude some of these essentials at installation time. This can be remedied from your package manager though.

Secondly, I'll empasise that wherever I put "${BASE}" above, I really meant "/home/username/Desktop/2009_1214_RT3.../" or wherever you decided to unpack the archive.

I'll give you a full terminal output in a bit (not on Linux right now)

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Oh yea and two more questions...One will this effect the usb adapter when i boot over into Windows?

Negative. Windows drivers control the adapter in Windows; Linux drivers make it work in Linux. As soon as you restart, it's a clean slate. Though I've sometimes found that making the adapter work in Windows kick-starts it for use in Linux...don't ask me why.

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And after everything is all done as far as getting this to work, can i delete the folder 2009_1214 etc from the computer? I dont need to keep it around do i?

Technically, you CAN, but I usually shove drivers, install programs, etc. into a folder called "build" in my home folder, just in case I need to refer back to them at any point. If you ever want to remove the driver, you can do a "make uninstall" from the "2009_1214_RT3..." folder to get rid of the drivers automatically. The saved drive space is barely worth the effort to delete them anyway.

I have a USB dongle for my Nintendo Wii, basically it creates a wifi network for the Wii to use. When this is plugged in for some reason Ubuntu defaults to using this to connect to the network and it is SLOWWWWW.

so i have to keep it unplugged on linux but thats no biggie because i rarely use the internet on the Wii.